In their essay “Police Repression Is the Problem, Not the Solution,” CARL Director Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III, Dr. Jude Paul Dizon, Dr. Vanessa Miller, and Jessica Hatrick offer an incisive critique of colleges and universities mobilizing campus and municipal police in response to peaceful Encampment for Gaza protests.

This study explored the dynamic nature of 42 Black undergraduate and graduate students’ senses of safety as it relates to their college campuses due to the shifting vulnerabilities exposed in the current political and societal climate.

In recent years, higher education leaders have been forced to confront the negative impact of police presence on Black and racially minoritized campus populations. We propose that higher education leaders and policymakers take seriously contemporary calls to defund and abolish campus police in order to craft safer and more empowering campus environments for minoritized populations on campus and in surrounding communities

In their essay “A Case for Abolishing Campus Police,” CARL Director Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III and Dr. Kamaria B. Porter offer a compelling argument for alternative understandings of campus safety and the need for postsecondary institutions to divest from the institution of policing.

CARL Director issues letter of support for graduate workers and the Graduate Employee Organization-led strike. Dr. Davis affirms the importance of unarmed response in addressing issues of campus safety.